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Making the Most of Your Registry
Making the Most of Your Registry Congratulations to both of you, and thank you for taking part in Basic Rights Oregon’s Caring Couples Registry. By partnering with us to share your good news, you are helping to raise critical funds to advance equality as well as raising awareness of the very personal impact of our work. There are just a few steps to making the most out of your registry:
1. Review your Caring Couples Registry page
In the body of your Registration email, you’ll find your personalized web address. Please take a moment to review the text and photo on your registry page. If you have any last minute changes, email Corinne with replacement text or photos.
2. Create your invite list
To get the most out of your registry, we encourage you to share it with friends and family in Oregon, across the nation, and around the world! Be sure every pro-equality person you know has the opportunity to support our work. As you put together your email or mailing list, consider the following in addition to close friends and family:
- your holiday card list or personal mailing list,
- the invite list from your last party,
- pro-equality friends,
- members of your bowling league, square dance club, or yoga class,
- former and current classmates,
- activists and organizers,
- old friends and co-workers you haven’t seen in a while,
- and anyone else you can think of!
Get the word out
You can easily share your registry page with family and friends by simply adding “/forward” to the end of your personalized web address.
For example, to get to Jeana Frazzini and KD Parman’s Tell-a-friend page, you would enter: https://secure.ga4.org/01/frazzini_and_parman/forward
Example:
Feel free to change the supplied sample text in your message to personalize your email. By using this form, your personalized web address will be automatically inserted into your message. You don’t have to worry about cutting and pasting the web address at all.
Manage your list
Using the Tell-a-friend feature described above, you can send up to ten emails at a time announcing your registry page with an invitation for your friends and family to support the work of Basic Rights Oregon. Most likely, you’ll have many more than ten emails to send, so keeping a separate list of who you’ve sent an email to is very important!
3. Increase Participation of your Registry
Sending the initial email is the first step to getting the word out about your Caring Couples Registry page. After you send the email, it’s crucial to follow up with a phone call to your friends, family members, and colleagues who received an email. These calls are quick conversations about why you thought of them when you brainstormed a list of people to involve in the celebration.
- A phone call can be as simple as: “Hi, (Name), how are you doing? It’s (your name)! I just want to make sure you got my e-mail letting you know about (partner’s name) and I signed up for Basic Rights Oregon’s Caring Couples Registry! Did you see the email?Well, here’s what we’re doing: in honor of our partnership, we’re asking our friends, family members, and colleagues (whatever is appropriate) to make a donation to Basic Rights Oregon in celebration of our recent partnership.Instead of asking for toasters and flatware, we’re giving folks the opportunity to make a donation in our name to the organization fighting to defend equality. Can we count on your support?”
4. Remember to say Thank You
Be sure to send thank you notes to friends who contribute in your name. Thank you notes only take a moment to write, and they are invaluable to the person who has contributed.